Tuesday, November 4, 2014

I Ask Only to Choose Between Us, Then Shut This Election Down

Activating the MomCat Emergency Alert System.

UPDATE! Works every time.

In a typical twitter spasm at hearing some band I hadn't thought about it ages I promised a Bedhead cascade today so thank Baal for twitter spasms. The above has been posted at least a dozen time in this blog's life. It's one of dozens of my five favorite songs ever.

Earthgirl has not asked me to vote for specific Board of Education candidates so today is the first time since I was eligible to vote in a primary or mid-term general election I will not vote at all. I don't know whether Earthgirl is going to vote. The only thing she has said about the election is - and this is a direct quote - "yabbadabbadoo, I get the day off."

Confession: I did check to see if there were any propositions that needed a YES vote, but it's DC, not MOCO, that's voting to legalize weed.

The creepy new wave Internet?The Internet’s third wave will be propelled by businesses that are able
to rationalize their operations by replacing people with machines, using
sensors to simplify distribution patterns and reduce inventories,
deploying algorithms that eliminate human error, and so on. Those
business savings are crucial to Rifkin’s vision of the Third Industrial
Revolution, not simply because they have the potential to bring down the
price of consumer goods, but because, for the first time, a central
tenet of capitalism—that increased productivity requires increased human
labor—will no longer hold. And once productivity is unmoored from
labor, he argues, capitalism will not be able to support itself, either
ideologically or practically.

4 comments:

Is all good. And it could be argued - I have argued - that my not-voting in the bluest precinct of the bluest congressional district in the blues county of Blue Maryland is substantially different than voting in 50/50 Ohio and takes no courage or sacrifice on my part (though MD Dems seem to be sweating out O'Malley Jr's governor's coronation). Planet, in 2012, had first POTUS vote count more in Ohio than all my POTUS votes over decades in Maryland.

I hadn't thought about Whiskey Fire in years, and most of those people on his blogroll. Not a deliberate conversion, just happened.